Quoting... "Q: You are not really de-anonymizing anyone, because your algorithm cannot link identities to anonymous Netflix records. Here is how our algorithm

Quoting... "Q: You are not really de-anonymizing anyone, because your algorithm cannot link identities to anonymous Netflix records. Here is how our algorithm works. If you already know someone's identity and a few of the movies this person liked or disliked, you can use the Netflix dataset to find their entire movie viewing history prior to 2005 (provided, of course, they were a Netflix subscriber and their record was one of those released as part of the dataset)." I don't see how this is the same situation. The NYtimes already possesses my reading history (if I'm logged in), what I am hiding from them is my identity and the work in this paper does not help them find that out. The only thing that will help them with this task is to coerce my ISP to identify an IP address (if I don't happen to be using Tor).